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This week, as part of our “Pills, Perils, Profits” investigative series on Southasian pharma, health reporter Vidya Krishnan writes that US aid cuts have exposed the
The uncompromising writer’s English translator reflects on how Tsering Döndrup’s banned ‘The Red Wind Howls’ reckons with China’s erasure of Tibet’s suffering while reclaiming Tibetans’ right to critique their own culture and history
US and Western aid cuts expose global health’s rotten core and leave millions facing preventable deaths from HIV, TB, malaria and more – but the past and the present offer lessons in how to fight back
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This week, Jason Stanley reflects that India’s fascist turn under Hindu nationalist rule has multiple parallels with global fascist tactics and history, including in Nazi
India’s fascist turn under Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist rule has multiple parallels with global fascist tactics and history, including in Nazi Germany and Trump’s United States
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This week, Salman Rafi Sheikh writes about the warm reception Pakistan’s army chief received in Washington DC, as the US courts Pakistan as a potential
Sri Lankan journalists are calling on the government to expedite stalled investigations into the unsolved abduction and murder of Tamil journalist Dharmeratnam “Taraki” Sivaram
The United States and Donald Trump are courting the Pakistan military as an ally in a war against Iran, but Pakistan’s present problems and hard lessons from the US-led invasion of Afghanistan should offer grave warnings
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This week, Burhan Majid writes about how India’s BJP government has weaponised reservations to disempower residents of Kashmir, leaving the union territory’s elected administration
A revised reservation policy brought in by India’s BJP-led central government attempts to shift Jammu and Kashmir’s politics to the ruling party’s benefit, and has left the union territory’s newly elected administration in a tricky spot
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This week, Shivanthi Fernando writes about recent developments into the case of Sri Lankan journalist Keith Noyahr, who was abducted and tortured, as the Attorney General’
